Table 3.
Patients treated in Florida EDs for anaphylactic shock due to antibiotics or anti-infectives, food and Hymenoptera insect venoms for the years 2005 and 2006
| Type of Case Definition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description of Diagnosis | Method I | Method II-Algorithm | |||
| Number | (Percentage) | Number | (Percentage) | ||
| Antibiotics or Anti-infectives | |||||
| Penicillins | 37 | (35) | 9 | (18) | |
| Erythromycin and other macrolides | 4 | (4) | 4 | (8) | |
| Tetracycline group | 0 | (0) | 2 | (4) | |
| Cephalosporin group | 14 | (13) | 6 | (12) | |
| Other/unspecified antibiotics* | 31 | (29) | 15 | (29) | |
| Sulfonamides | 8 | (8) | 6 | (12) | |
| Quinoline and hydroxyquinoline derivatives | 4 | (4) | 4 | (8) | |
| Other antiprotozoal drugs | 0 | (0) | 2 | (4) | |
| Other and unspecified anti-infectives | 8 | (8) | 3 | (6) | |
| Total | 106 | (100) | 51 | (100) | |
| Hymenoptera insect venoms | |||||
| Hornets, wasps, or bees | 24 | (67) | 130 | (51) | |
| Other venomous arthropods | 10 | (28) | 104 | (41) | |
| Toxic effect of venom | 2 | (6) | 21 | (8) | |
| Total | 36 | (100) | 255 | (100) | |
| Food | |||||
| Dermatitis due to food | 2 | (0) | 22 | (48) | |
| Anaphylaxis due to a food allergy | 449 | (100) | 0 | (0) | |
| Adverse food reaction not classified elsewhere | 0 | (0) | 24 | (52) | |
| Total | 451 | (100) | 46 | (100) | |
*
Other antibiotics = E930, E930.8, and E930.9